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< Whitman's hand >\
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\strike \strikec0 The\strike0\striked0  Mother \strike \strikec0 with her\strike0\striked0  and Brood.\
Of The Mother of All with mighty brood,\
The Idea of All, and of each and\
each & every single one unerringly for All\
(Not \strike \strikec0 You and I now--\strike0\striked0 not now that\
haughty single Self I sang erstwhile\
Not now that striding loud-mouth'd\
Self--not Your or I now;)\
the Aggregate entire--\
America condensed, melanged--the\
varied compact Whole--the\
Aggregate;\
(While the strength of my voice holds\
out, and the after-day holds out)\
My vast, \strike \strikec0 and varied\strike0\striked0  compacted, New World\
States as a Single Identity only\
Of these, \strike \strikec0 and\strike0\striked0  in the love of these, I\
sing.}